Personal Narrative

I Glimpsed My Future at a High School Speech Tournament

There’s something sweetly sad about how I remember my scores from 25 years ago, evidence of a worth I still struggle to internalize

Recommended Reading

A Long-Lost Mother’s Embrace Is an Obliterative Fate

“The Ominous Shaft” by Marlena Williams, recommended by Preety Sidhu for Electric Literature

interviews

Memoir Is a Form of Drag

“Drag Thing” author Gabe Montesanti and “Lipstick” author Eileen G’Sell on self-adornment, performance, and the power of radical reinvention

Cover Reveals

Exclusive Cover Reveal of “A Cow Gives Birth at Night” by Pajtim Statovci, Translated by David Hackston

The striking cover reflects the restlessness and claustrophobia of the novel

Reading Lists

The Places We Love Are Disappearing. These Authors Are Grappling With It

These nine novels grieve beloved homes, cultures, and worlds that are fading away